Browsing All Posts published on »March, 2010«

Lately I’ve been trying to pay it forward and help other people get their stories polished. Whether that’s through critiquing work, reading their story, or helping with a query letter over on the public query slushpile. A lot of people don’t know what their story is about. Well, they think they do, until you tell […]

I have gone back into to do some editing on my “New Adult” story. It’s a complete departure from anything I’ve ever done in the past and it shows—to me at least. While the idea of the story was simply kick ass, and my writing its usual “stumbling-upon-good”, I can’t help shake the feeling there […]

Okay, Let’s see if we can use this Web 2.0 thing for more than just posting pictures of our pets and what we had for dinner last night. My wife found this camera a few years ago, in a grocery store in the Dallas Ft.Worth area. We gave the grocery store our contact information and […]

I see Avatar is nominated for an academy award. For what, I cannot figure out. People keep telling me they thought the movie was great, but they can’t tell me WHY they thought it was great. To me, that’s the catch. It was all flash and no substance, and the flash was meh. See, here’s […]